If the term “allistic” offends you: grow up, it’s a new word. Is learning a new word scary?

I have no particular opinion on the term “allistic,” but what happened to the maxime that each group should get the final say on the terminology applied to that specific group?

Now we’re saying to a specific group “hey, from now on we’ll call you all this new term and you all can just shut up and deal with it, because you don’t get a say?”

Seems like contradicting messages.

Most people will buy a computer, that computer will have Windows 11 on it, they’ll start using that computer and the pre-installed OS that came with it, and maybe, occasionally, they will complain that “this is different now” and that “they always change things, it’s so annoying” and that will be the end of it.

If you’re talking about people who install or even just upgrade the OS on their computer by themselves, are aware of such a concept as “alternative operating systems,” engage in any kind of conversation about operating systems on social media, and then care enough about the topic to downvote people who disagree with them on purely ideological grounds, you’re already talking about a tiny, tiny minority of computer users.

Regular counselor? Sure, doesn’t need to be on the bridge.

Mind-reading empath, though? Massive strategic advantage in any encounter, friend or foe! Put her on the bridge!

If you think transporter room duty is boring,

Side note: why are they even using the transporter room at all? Site-to-site transport exists, and the transporter can be controlled from any terminal.

So why, when there’s an emergency, do people frantically run to the turbolift, traverse a dozen decks, run along corridors, enter the transporter room and jump unto those little platforms, when they could just beam to wherever they need to go right from where they’re standing?

Same question about medical emergencies - why is it not standard procedure to simply beam people to sickbay? Instead, doctors are running along corridors, taking turbolifts up and down and across decks, running some more along corridors, only to arrive at a patient and declare “bring him to sickbay immediately!!!”

There’s not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.

The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn’t matter whether they’re being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.

Not because national anthems are political, that's one of the dunbest things that's been said in this thread

Many national anthems are fairly radical political manifestos.

Just because they've been put to some music and we've gotten used to them doesn't make them any less radical.

It's funny to think that statements like "arise, children of the fatherland, against the bloody flag of tyranny" or "O Lord our God arise, scatter our enemies and make them fall!" or "Let's unite, we're ready to die! For centuries we've been stamped on and laughed at because we're not one people" should be completely okay and everybody should stand and listen in awe, but "black lives matter" would be too radical and too political for the same setting.

There's been really no follow-up on whether or not that STD ever cleared up, either…

This wasn’t a court case.

This was a copyright application.

The Copyright Office asked him to provide them with an unedited version of the image generated by Midjourney in order to determine how much (human) work went into the final version.

Allen refused to provide them with an unedited version, so the Copyright Office had no way to verify how much or how little work was actually done by the artist compared to work that was done by the AI, so they had to assume that the vast majority of the work was done without any human artistic contribution.

They were essentially forced to reject his copyright application because he refused to provide evidence that he actually did any kind of creative artistic work.

Well, that is assuming there’s no human editing of the results of the AI tool afterwards. There was heaps of it in the piece referenced in the article

If there was, then the artist should have discussed those heaps of human editing that went into the creation of this piece of art, and he would have been granted a copyright.

The fact that he refused to disclose what - if anything - was done after the AI spit out the result is what resulted in him not being granted copyright.

Former NHTSA senior safety adviser Missy Cummings, a professor at George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing, said the surge in Tesla crashes is troubling.

“Tesla is having more severe — and fatal — crashes than people in a normal data set,” she said in response to the figures analyzed by The Post.

This would indicate that FSD is more dangerous than a human driver, would it not?

Clearly a lot of people didn’t read it that way.

But yeah, I agree with you: Twitter X going offline in the EU would be nice.

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… if you’re a fan of Elon boy, white supremacy, the alt-right, homophobia, “anti woke” propaganda, or making excuses for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Otherwise it’s shite.

Another way to look at it is: when was the last mid-air collision in the US, or even the world involving TCAS equipped airliners? The only one that comes to mind is the DHL-BAL mid air in 2002, which was a result of the one crew not following the TCAS instruction.

A significant part of the report focused on near collisions on runways.

TCAS doesn’t mitigate that, right?

It’s crazy that the entire engineering section on Starfleet ships is just right next to the warp core, with absolutely zero structural separation.

The number of times ships had to eject their warp core, or had the warp core go critical, or had other warp core related accidents, you’d think Starfleet would have learned not to exclusively rely on emergency force fields and that they would have simply built two separate sections for engineering and for the warp core.

But no, even after all those experiences, they instead even ditched the isolation doors when they designed the Intrepid class, and basically wrapped the engineering section around the open warp core.

Cause what could possibly go wrong with that approach, eh?

Instead of posting a rant about “short sighted leftists,” why don’t you explain precisely why it would be so horrible if users were able to install whatever operating system they wanted to install on the devices they’ve purchased with their own money?

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“But it would be bad for my favorite trillion dollar corporation and for their bottom line!!!”

I’ll never understand consumers who insist to take the side of the corporation rather than the side of the customer on these issues.

If weight isn’t an issue, then it makes sense to use a system that only costs a fraction of a hydrogen-powered setup.

Trains don’t need to fly. Just pack them full of batteries or - arguably even better - just electrify the line wherever possible.

That’s just not an option for planes, so hydrogen remains a potentially viable approach.

That’s for way more than just one plant, and there’s a lot more going on that resulted in such a high price tag. That isn’t normal.

No, that’s pretty normal. Current experience with decommissioning German nuclear power plants show that the cost is about $1.2 billion per power plant, and that decommissioning takes about 20 years.

Of course it cost money to build, but now it’s just there.

That doesn’t mean you simply get to ignore the $53 billion it cost to dig that hole.